How Parental Academic Pressure Backfires to Children

How Parental Academic Pressure Backfires to Children

Most parents have good intention in pushing their kids to do well in school. Statements like “we want the kids to have a successful life” and “we want them to have a stable job” are the parents’ first reasons. However, unrealistic expectations and intense pressure may do more harm than good to children psychologically, according to experts.

Being upset to their Cs and Ds is not the solution to improve their academic performance! Here are a few reminders on what too much academic pressure does to children and how you and your Indonesian maid or Filipino maid can help in motivating the child for school.

1. It may develop stress and anxiety.
Stress and anxiety will eventually manifest physically to the children. It may not show up now but the diagnosis may be confirmed later in the child’s life. Some of the effects of academic pressure on the child’s health are eating disorders, self-deprivation, diarrhea, stomach aches, rashes, and headaches. The diseases root down to stress and anxiety!

The fix and how the Indo maid or Filipino maid can help:
Hiring an Indo maid or Filipino maid in Singapore to be their nanny helps a lot.
The maid can have a little fun time with the child every after school! After all, kids love to play and be silly simply because they are kids. Laughter reduces stress levels and there are countless scholarly articles to prove that laughter is the best medicine.

2. Too much academic pressure results to poor self-confidence and self-image.
Low self-esteem is often evident to children who are being compared to siblings, classmates, and their playmates. Most children take comparisons as discouragements and not something to empower themselves.

Over-managing the kid’s studies also steals their own will for learning and decreases their competence! Journal of Child and Family found out that parents who meddles so much on children’s school life caused their children to be less competent and over-dependent to others even in their later lives.

The fix and how the Indo maid or Filipino maid can help:
Let the child know that he or she is loved and accepted regardless of his or her academic performance. As simple as it is, this will encourage them to do better instead of pressuring them. While studying, the Indo nanny or Filipino nanny may spark the child’s interest to the lesson by storytelling, creating catchy graphs and tables, and even relating the lesson to their daily lives! A little creativity can spice up the study time.

3. Pushing the child too much can cause him or her to have bad behaviors.
Cheating on exams, lying to the teacher, threatening other kids, and other unethical behaviors may surface just to please parents or avoid punishments. To deal with the stress of having straight As or being on top of the class, they may also turn to alcohol, smoking or other vices.
In research conference organized by the British Psychological Society, one study said that 52% of high school students used alcohol, smoking, and illegal drugs to cope with the stress.

The fix and how the Indo maid or Filipino maid can help:
Don’t get mad! Children don’t learn much when they are upset too. Instead, ask the child if there is any way you can help. Indo maids and Filipino maids can show their support in many ways! Just a simple healthy snack while he or she is sitting down to answer his Math homework will do.

We hope our reminder has an impact to you and your kids! We wish you a happier and healthier family.

The family’s health and safety should be the top priority. Eden Grace Maids Agency offers maid services which will help us secure our children’s safety when we’re not around. The choice to hire a maid who can take care of the tiring household chores and things we cannot handle on our own will definitely be a plus point!

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